Sustaining Life - Sustainable Power
When we speak of energy, power, and development, we
all think development, industrialization, advancement; all these leads
to pollution and degradation of the environment. You hear advocates say
that our environment was a lot purer in long gone ages because people do
not use energy.
Who’s Liable?
That is not necessarily true; you see ancient man used fire to cook
things, and then the sun to warm them up. Even humanity itself uses
energy to be able to move and go about life each day. We cannot survive
without energy and yet we blame it for the destruction of our planet. It
is us who use energy to no ends, it is us who abuse its use therefore we
are liable to find the solution to pollution. It is our responsibility
to our selves and the future generation to seek ways of supporting our
way of life without harming the environment.
The Scope and Definition of Sustainable Power
Generally sustainable power is thought to be any renewable kind of
energy. Meaning it is any puissance whose source cannot be depleted and
does not contaminate the environment on a long term basis.
Although sustainable power maybe confused with alternate or green energy
the two are distinctly different. Sustainable power is conducive to
nature but it is set apart from green or alternate energy because its
source is unending, it cannot be exhausted.
Power Source
Sources of sustainable energy vary. It can be as simple as hydrogen to
as complex as nuclear energy. When we speak of sustainable development
we must consider the basics before heading of to the complex, after all
we haven’t used the newly scientifically discovered energy long enough
to know its possible effects. The first things to consider are those
that nature itself supplies; like the air, wind, solar, tidal, and water
resources.
Techno Speak
With all the media hype surrounding this idealism you’d think that we
aren’t already using sustainable energy! Yes, we already are using
alternate energy resources. We have water dams, the waterfall power
plants, wind mills, geothermal plants, and the nuclear power plants.
There are three technological classifications for the technologies that
help us attain sustainable power; these include biomass combustion,
hydropower, and geothermal plants. First generation power automatons
arose during the industrial revolution. This is the time where people
discovered that manufacturing will become faster thru the use of
machines, and faster output means larger sales. In a way sustainable
power was researched and invented not for the future but for the moment;
to improve lives, industry and the economy.
Second Generation energy resources comprise wind power, various forms of
modern bioenergy, solar photovoltaics, and solar energy. These
technologies emerged from the need to depend on oil so much. Research
and Development was massively funded during the 1980’s and we are now
reaping the benefits.
Third Generation sustainable energy resources are those that relatively
new; biorefinery technologies, ocean energy, hot dry rock energy,
biomass gasification, concentrating solar thermal power and even
nanotechnology may make future appearances that will hopefully end our
quest for continuous energy sources. On the stage of research and
experimentation these resources are still under development but raise
the hopes of those who continually seek sustainable power.
All that have been mentioned are technological advances and discoveries
of everlasting energy source, but in the end like everything in our
lives, the future is in our hands. Even when we are provided with more
nature friendly energy resources if we don’t conserve and use it wisely
we will still end up damaging the very planet on whose existence and
well being we very much depend on.
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